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Dell Solution Center Network Expands in Australia and U.S.

17 May 2012

Dell’s focus on helping our customers “Do More..” was reinforced over the last two weeks as we opened new “Solution Centers” in Sydney and New York City. Interest in these two centers has been huge since we first announced these locations and we already have numerous engagement requests from customers and partners who want to see and test how Dell solutions can meet their unique requirements. Each center was launched with an event attended by customers, alliance partners, channel partners and media. In New York, we were also delighted to meet with several industry analysts. Our guests were invited to tour the centers and experience a diverse range of industry...

Dell Channel Partner Steve Hipskind Talks About the Impact of Acquisitions

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16 May 2012
Innovations that deliver results faster: Extending the benefits of 12th generation servers

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14 May 2012
Dell’s Customers Speak, Dell Listens: Green Packaging Program with Mushrooms Grows

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11 May 2012

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How Dell Helped Grow Financial Grow

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by Sarah Richardson
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Posted on behalf of Scott Schram, Financial Services Vertical Lead. In my prior role with Dell I was part of the SMB business transformation team charged with integrating M&A acquisition solutions including KACE , Boomi , Compellent , SecureWorks and Force10 Networks into the core business. So when I moved into my new role with our Commercial Verticals organization focused on the Financial Services industry, I was anxious to observe firsthand how this newly acquired Dell IP was meeting customer...
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Get proactive about managing your printing costs

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by Paul Nicholson
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Despite all the promise of e-mail and document scanning leading to a “paperless” office, thousands of pages are printed in offices every day, and paper remains the preferred method for many offices to distribute information. That said, many organizations are facing tremendous financial pressures, operational budgets are being scrutinized, and the standard direction is to “do more with less,” but one office expense that is often overlooked is printer management. If your...
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Weekly Recap: Dell in the News - May 18th edition

Posted 2 days ago

by Chris Byrd, Corp Comm Social Media Team
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Welcome to the latest edition of the Weekly Recap, your guide to the week's Dell-related news and happenings. Story of the Week Dell Helps Fight Pediatric Cancer with Research Computing Cluster WebProNews – May 17, 2012 Dell has created a special research computing cluster to go along with the new high performance computing and collaboration cloud used for identifying targeted treatments for pediatric cancer patients. Dell donated the computing cluster to the Translational Genomics...
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OEM: Should software companies also be hardware companies?

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by Joyce Mullen
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I recently saw a quote from famed computer scientist Alan Kay . “People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware” is often mis-attributed to Steve Jobs as he said this at the phone launch in 2007, 25 years after Kay first said it (interestingly, he was discussing some coding he was doing for Mac at the time). What I find more interesting is that this quote is sometimes attributed to Jobs; that it was first said 30 years ago and that so many software companies...
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IT ensuring a strong financial heartbeat at NASDAQ

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by Rakesh Nair
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Stock exchanges are considered the financial heartbeat of the economy. And in this highly competitive market, technology is essential to keeping that financial heart beating. NASDAQ, the world’s largest exchange company, considers speed a differentiator, and technology enables speed. As NASDAQ Executive Vice President and CIO Anna Ewing describes in this video , the mission critical platforms Nasdaq relies on to process its millions of transactions per second must be high performance, highly...
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Dell Solution Center Network Expands in Australia and U.S.

Posted 4 days ago

by Lee Morgan
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Dell’s focus on helping our customers “Do More..” was reinforced over the last two weeks as we opened new “Solution Centers” in Sydney and New York City. Interest in these two centers has been huge since we first announced these locations and we already have numerous engagement requests from customers and partners who want to see and test how Dell solutions can meet their unique requirements. Each center was launched with an event attended by customers, alliance partners...
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Cloud Ready with Dell: From vStart to vCloud

Posted 4 days ago

by Stephen Spector
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Written by : Deepak Kanwar and Stephen Spector As organizations continue to move up the virtualization maturity ladder, they are looking at private clouds to bring greater agility and efficiency to their environment. By pooling IT assets and exposing them via Infrastructure as a Service to their employees/customers, private cloud can quickly enhance employee productivity and experience. Instead of waiting for days, authorized IT users can now get access to IT assets in a matter of minutes. As...
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Dell Social Innovation Challenge Narrows to Five Finalists

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by Michele Glaze
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With just four weeks left until the culmination of the 2012 Dell Social Innovation Challenge, we have five fantastic finalists from around the world who surfaced from more than 1,500 entries in 90 countries. Entrepreneurship is in our DNA, and we are committed to fostering that spirit in others. In partnership with The University of Texas, the Dell Social Innovation Challenge invites college students around the world to enter their transformative ideas for solving social problems. Without further...
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Dell Channel Partner Steve Hipskind Talks About the Impact of Acquisitions

Posted 5 days ago

by Laura P. Thomas
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It always energizes me when I have a chance to talk to one of our customers, and our resellers, distributors and other channel partners are especially interesting as they are both our customer and our face to other customers. So, when I first spoke with Steve Hipskind of Hipskind Technology Solutions Group , I knew I wanted to share his story with more people. Hipskind Technology Solutions Group’s goal is to provide a total IT solution for their customers by selecting from the best manufacturers...
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Dell vCloud Goes Hollywood with GreenButton

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by Stephen Spector
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The addition of new customers to the Dell Cloud with VMware vCloud Data Center Service provides an opportunity for the promotion of interesting ways that Dell’s public/hybrid cloud is leveraged for the maximization of efficiency, global reach, and new business opportunities. I have already blogged about Gratifon and how their VoIP solution enhances the lives of people living in Panama by delivering free phone service in shopping centers. In this post, I am introducing another customer of the...
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Designed by You. Engineered by Dell.

Posted 6 days ago

by Sally Stevens, VP—Server Platform Mktg.
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Perhaps you have already seen the reaction to our February announcement of our PowerEdge 12 th generation servers: 18 excellent product reviews in the press, with one of our servers, the R720, being chosen by Byte TI as the “Best Server of 2012”. Reading the reviews, it is clear that the evaluators understood that the innovations designed into the systems weren’t just “cool” technology, or just technologies ahead of the competition. The technologies are cool, and they...
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Innovations that deliver results faster: Extending the benefits of 12th generation servers

Posted 7 days ago

by Forrest Norrod, VP/GM—Next Gen Computing
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In February we announced the next generation of our PowerEdge servers to an eager audience. We’ve had a tremendous response from customers, who appreciate our focus on developing meaningful innovations that help them achieve more. Dell customer Harvey Newman, Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology told us, “For nearly two decades, the Caltech High-Energy Physics group and Center for Advanced Computing Research have been working to increase data throughput over...
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Dell’s Customers Speak, Dell Listens: Green Packaging Program with Mushrooms Grows

Posted 9 days ago

by Susan Beebe, Global Communications / PR
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Recently, Dell’s Oliver Campbell was interviewed by Mashable (“ Your Next Gadget Might Be Packaged in … Mushrooms? ”) to share news about the Dell mushroom packaging program, which is one of the most progressive sustainable packing programs of its kind on the planet. “Dell and mushrooms might not seem to go hand-in-hand, but the theory behind the partnership is core to Dell’s environmental philosophy, and very much customer-inspired . Oliver Campbell...
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Weekly Recap: Dell in the News - May 11th edition

Posted 9 days ago

by Chris Byrd, Corp Comm Social Media Team
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Welcome to the latest edition of the Weekly Recap, your guide to the week's Dell-related news and happenings. Story of the Week Dell NYC Solution Center Open for IT Business eWeek – May 10, 2012 Ever since 2007, when it plunked down more than $1 billion to buy storage provider EqualLogic, Dell has tried to move away from being a one-dimensional PC maker to become a full-fledged IT service provider in the mold of IBM and the company’s main rival, Hewlett-Packard. Other Dell...
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Dell Boomi Wins 2012 CODiE Award for “Best Web Services Solution”

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by Ralph Hibbs
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We don’t normally like to brag, but Dell Boomi is very proud today. Having just returned from the 7 th annual All About the Cloud conference in San Francisco where the awards presentation took place yesterday evening, I am incredibly proud to announce that Dell Boomi has just won the 2012 CODiE Award for the “ Best Web Services Solution ” category! The industry’s only peer-reviewed awards program and now in its 27 th year, the CODiE Awards are an incredible honor and the...
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Enjoy fast and easy printing, direct from your Android mobile device

Posted 11 days ago

by Paul Nicholson
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As smart mobile devices become more common, customers are viewing their devices as virtual remote controls, and all-in-one tools for accomplishing their personal and business needs with the ease of wireless connectivity. This growing need is evident in the imaging industry as customers seek to print content directly from their mobile devices to their printers. With the launch of the new Dell Mobile Print app , users can now enjoy the convenience of fast, direct printing from their Android mobile...
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Six Great Human and Computer Collaborations

Posted 11 days ago

by David Whitworth
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At Dell , we are always fascinated by the power of people and computers coming together to create even more than they could have done on their own. Not only have we seen the incredible force of social media on our own business, but we have also seen some of our products, like laptops , workstations and servers , power some truly amazing innovation. For example, two of our services, Educational Technology and EMR Solutions , are key contributors to the spreading of two of the wonderful collaborations...
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More on the Ivy Bridge upgrade for new Alienware notebooks

Posted 12 days ago

by Lionel Menchaca, Chief Blogger
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Last week, John Blain mentioned that we’d be upgrading orders of the new Alienware M14x , M17x and M18x laptops we recently introduced. Since then, sites like Engadget , The Verge and Ubergizmo took notice, and since then some customers have had some questions. I wanted to take a few minutes to clarify some details on the subject. If you ordered one of the new Alienware M14, M17 or 18x laptops after we introduced them on April 19, we’ve upgraded your order from the 2nd generation Intel...
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Dell and SAP Announce Cloud Migration and Joint Solution Offerings

Posted 12 days ago

by Stephen Spector
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Dell today announced a 60 day promotional offer available by the end of May for customers looking to move their SAP solutions into a secure, enterprise class hybrid and public cloud. Leveraging the Dell vCloud with VMware vCloud Datacenter Service, customers running SAP solutions are offered the state of the art in secure, enterprise proven cloud technology managed by Dell with experience in providing quality cloud services. Introduced are two new offers: Dell Cloud Starter Kit for SAP Solutions...
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10 social media tips when commenting and responding to customers online [Infographic]

Posted 13 days ago

by Kerry Bridge
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Take a look at almost any survey about social media and how businesses use it, there’s one clear constant – not only is business use increasing , but also the need for helping business employees understand how to use social media is increasing. Rewards for doing this well and risks if mistakes are made, are very real. While there’s a huge focus on the big-picture aspect of understanding how businesses can best develop a social media plan and guidelines, let’s not overlook...
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It’s Teacher Appreciation Week: How has a teacher given you the power to do more?

Posted 13 days ago

by Mark Horan
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My favorite teacher growing up was my middle school science teacher, Mr. Strack. He taught through experiments, interactive lab assignments and compelling lectures making science both fun and interesting. Mr. Strack’s class was so exciting his students were learning without even realizing it. I know first-hand that teachers have a lasting impact on our lives and help shape who we are. Today during Teacher Appreciation Week – and every day - I find it a sincere privilege to shine a...
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Dell at Interop Las Vegas 2012

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by Rod Mercado
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Hello Las Vegas! Dell is thrilled to be a part of Interop Las Vegas 2012 in the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino. Over the last year, Dell has built end to end IT solutions that allow you to build on what you have, handle your current workloads are prepare you for future growth. At Interop, we will show you how Dell gives you the power to do more . On Tuesday, May 8 th at 1PM PT, Dario Zamarian, VP and General Manager of Dell Networking, will give a keynote presentation along with special guest...
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Check Out Dell’s Latest Telecommunications Offerings @ CTIA Wireless

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by Laurie Hutto-Hill
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We’re heading to the “Big Easy” for the CTIA Wireless 2012 show in New Orleans next week, and after a great few months, preparing for and attending both Mobile World Congress and the NAB Show, we’re pumped to continue the conversation with the CTIA wireless crowd and show off the exciting things were doing in the telecommunications industry. In fact, you can find us in the Solutions Showcase at the show with demos and information highlighting some of our latest offerings...
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Supporting youth through the FIRST World Robotics Championships

Posted 16 days ago

by John Pflueger
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Last week, tens of thousands of students, mentors, parents and volunteers representing more than 600 teams in four robotics competitions gathered in St. Louis for the 2012 FIRST World Robotics Championships . These events closed out FIRST ’s 2011-2012 season in a festival of enthusiasm for science and technology. Dell was proud to be a part of this year’s program, as FIRST is a recipient of a Powering the Possible grant focused on youth learning. For 21 years, FIRST (“For...
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Weekly Recap: Dell in the News - May 4th edition

Posted 16 days ago

by Chris Byrd, Corp Comm Social Media Team
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Welcome to the latest edition of the Weekly Recap, your guide to the week's Dell-related news and happenings. Story of the Week HP And IBM Need To Be Very Afraid Of Dell Forbes – April 30, 2012 I recently attended Dell‘s Annual Industry Conference (#DAAC) in beautiful Austin, Texas. I have staged and attended many conferences like this before and this was similar to those, but also different in many ways. Other Dell News Dell/Compellent Wins Our Storage Evaluation Information...